Do they still think allowing a sitting president to be sued was a good idea?

Payback's a bitch, baby:

Valerie Wilson and her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, filed suit on Thursday against Vice President Dick Cheney, Mr. Cheney’s former top aide and the senior presidential adviser Karl Rove, charging they had conspired to violate their constitutional rights.

The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court, accused Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rove and the former Cheney aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr., of conspiring to destroy Ms. Wilson’s career by leaking her identity as an undercover C.I.A. operative to the press. It says the three men had conspired to punish Mr. Wilson for his public assertions that the Bush administration had twisted intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq.

The civil lawsuit, which does not specify any amount of damages being sought, is the latest chapter in a complicated legal and political story that began when Valerie Plame, Ms. Wilson’s unmarried name, first appeared publicly in a newspaper column by Robert D. Novak on July 14, 2003.

Of course it remains to be seen whether the suit will be allowed to go forward. Presumably, as when Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton, that will be decided in the courts. The Administration will no doubt play the national security card -- a card they didn't care about when they outed a non-official cover CIA officer who was working on tracking the movement of nuclear material into Iran -- simply because her husband dared to tell the truth.